CW: talkin' about kinks and sexuality
I'm definitely not ace, but also, my relationship to kink is so entirely dissociated from anything resembling normal sexuality, and so thoroughly picky and demanding within that spectrum that I wonder if I'm not somewhere on that spectrum. 'Demisexual' only sorta covers it.
CW: talkin' about kinks and sexuality
sidebar tangent: about a week ago I heard an ace person refer to non-asexual people as 'romos' and became so unreasonably enraged I kind of wanted to find a way to slap them through my computer screen
hey, asshole: maybe don't make your cutesy slur for The Normies -quite- so close to one used to actually oppress and dehumanize people as recently as, like, yesterday
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@hystericempress god i love you sis <3 seriously, could people please NOT attempt to be "woke" by simply substituting one variable for another in the Anti-Life Equations, based on whoever's fair political game this week? >___<
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@zebratron2084 if I ever get a Stand power ala Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, I want it to be either 'can inflate anything, including the user, with a touch,' or 'constantly broadcast the thought THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ACCEPTABLE SLUR into the minds of everyone within range'
Nazi and TERF, for the record, ain't slurs
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@hystericempress I mean, if you REALLY wanna nitpick it (and I emphatically don't, because fuck them), Nazi is a tad classist because IIRC it was based on a—Bavarian, I think?—nickname for a hick.
It'd be like calling all Trump Republicans "Goober," which... um... is pretty tempting now that you mention it, because I 100% agree—derogatory names based on adoption of an inhumane ideology instead of an accident of birth are still kinda just fine with me these days.
Not optimal, yanno, but... I'll stop playing with Memetic Dark Magic when THEY do. I don't really want a world where the power of ridicule is an effective, let alone necessary, tactic. But damn if it isn't a necessary part of a good self-defense arsenal these days, as long as you laser-aim it towards people who have ACTUALLY ANTAGONIZED YOU WITH SOMETHING MORE THAN MERELY SYMBOLIZING SOMETHING YOU DON'T LIKE VIA THE OFFENSE OF THEIR EXISTENCE.
But in the case of slurs like "romos" and "breeders" and such... my main objection is that they tend to tar and alienate people who MIGHT HAVE BEEN OUR FUCKING FRIENDS based on something they can't help, that does not necessarily denote that they are enemies. If someone explicitly PICKS enmity towards us as a (*knowing smirk*) "lifestyle choice"... yeah, fuck 'em.
(THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ARE THOSE OF THE HUMAN HOST AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THOSE OF EMPRESS REZEYA MONTECORE ST HOBBES NOR THE MARTIAN GOVERNMENT TOWARDS THE FILTHY FILTHY TERRAN MENACE)
